Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

The step is expected to give a strong support to future fusion reactors as tritium is a vital fuel for fusion power stations.

Plans call for first-generation fusion reactors to use a mixture of deuterium and tritium — heavy types of hydrogen. In theory, with just a few grams of these reactants, it is possible to produce a ...

Although General Fusion’s piston-based fusion reactor has people mostly very confused ... This liquid lithium liner will both breed new tritium fuel from neutron exposure, as well as provide ...

The simplest method of doing fusion on Earth instead of space involves tritium and deuterium isotopes. Tritium is rare and radioactive so reactors currently “breed” it on demand to generate ...

But where the National Ignition Facility uses lasers to compress a fuel pellet, General Fusion’s MTF reactor design relies on steam-driven pistons. Inside the chamber, deuterium-tritium fuel is ...

Tritium raises challenges for measurement systems ... This decay not only poses a potential environmental risk but also impacts fusion reactor components and operational safety. Because of its ...

and recycle tritium. Canada-based General Fusion just announced it had successfully created plasma inside a prototype reactor as it seeks to prove that its “steampunk” approach to fusion power ...

Avalanche Energy, a fusion energy startup developing modular compact fusion machines, today announced the launch of FusionWERX, its new fusion test facility located in Richland, Washington. FusionWERX ...

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...

The site will also be the location where Avalanche will operate its Q>1 deuterium-tritium test program with the goal of developing the world's first net-energy compact fusion reactor system.